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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When I wear a mask it has nothing to do with politics or rules or “virtue signaling”.  It has to do with my personal risk assessments, my understanding that decisions based on risks for a larger group ( like availability of hospitality beds) aren’t the same as decisions based on my personal well-being.  I think this is a  county with a lot of educated people making individual decisions that they believe will decrease their individual risks.

FWIW: It’s pretty galling to hear people that probably don’t share my exposure risks or my demographic risk profile, or even similar access to medical care dismissively talking about “virtue signaling”. If you live in a single family home, travel by private car, and have your groceries delivered, your daily —albeit unknown— risk of exposure to infections is exponentially lower than mine— albeit also unknown. [b]My wearing a mask to walk between the elevator in my building to the now-quite-crowded Metro[/b] is one of the few things I can control.  Oh, and my Vaccination is now hitting the 6 month mark, I’m not yet eligible for a booster, and we really have no idea yet just how protective which vaccines are for which people under which circumstances for how long.

tldr: Doing my best under difficult circumstances. Maybe I have a mask on outdoors because I’m in between two points where I’ll wear it indoors — and wearing women’s clothing lacking usable pockets.  [/quote]

DP, and I don’t think any of us previous posters referencing virtue-signaling are talking about the circumstances you describe.  I’m certainly not.  I’m talking about other families who do have all the privileges you list (single-family homes, private cars, etc.) who wear masks when walking alone around a neighborhood, or when interacting at a distance with other vaccinated adults outdoors.  So, maybe you’re wearing a mask solely based on your personal risk, but I’ll be damned if I agree that’s the case for everyone in this county.  They’re afraid that if they don’t wear a mask, people will think they support Trump, and are too craven to follow the science, rather than what some ignoramus thinks of them.[/quote]

Agree, and same. I also don't "judge" people or think they're virtue signaling when they keep their mask on from the car to the grocery store, or whatever.

But come on. You haven't seen hyper vigilant affluent moms in Bethesda wearing k95s at the playground when there are one or two other families there? Or around outdoor bbqs?

Regardless, to another PP's point, I don't really care if people mask. I'm certainly not sneering at them. I am answering the OP's original question, though, which is why covid-consciousness is so high in MoCo (only hypothesizing, of course). Masking aside, my friends in MoCo (TkPk) looked at me like I had 2 heads when I said I took my under-12s to the movies. Same friend said she wasn't planning on eating indoors in a restaurant until summer 2023. Seriously. She's been vaccinated for some time, has a healthy 6 year old, and no other particularly risky characteristics. [/quote]

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